~★~♥~♥~★~ El Morno! ♥~★~★~♥ ~
May 20, 2011

★~ Today’s Quote: “If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” ~ Julia Child

★~ Millionaire Day:

POOF! You are a millionaire  . . . now what?

★~ Strawberry Day:

Strawberry season is just getting started, so it’s time to stock up on your favorite shortcake topper and smoothie ingredient. Slather on some sunblock, gather the kids, and head to the strawberry fields to pick a few baskets and enjoy the fruits of your labor all summer long. Plan B: Go to your nearest Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, or Farmers’ Market, and buy some juicy red strawberries.

★~ Quiche Lorraine Day:

~ Tonight we dine on Quiche Lorraine! Named after the Lorraine region of France, and borrowing from “kuchen,” the German word for cake, which was eventually altered to “kische,” the quiche Lorraine is a hallmark French dish that dates back to the 16th century and is still served in France as a light lunch, available at boulangeries, or a first course, or hors d’oeuvre, at dinnertime.

Julia Child, in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, described the original quiche Lorraine as an open pie with a filling consisting of an egg and cream custard with smoked bacon or lardons. What the heck is a lardon? Insert whine: Just tell me — I don’t want to Google it!

★~ Today in History:

♥~ 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for work pants reinforced with metal rivets, the pants that came to be known as “blue jeans.”

♥~ 1916 ’s : Norman Rockwell first cover on The Saturday Evening Post appeared. The illustration was of a young boy having to care for his baby sibling while his little buddies left him and went off to play ball. The forlorn child pushing a baby carriage tugged at the heart strings of all who saw it.

♥~ 1927 : ‘Lucky’ Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York aboard the small airplane Spirit of St. Louis, en route to Paris, France. Thirty-three and one-half hours later, Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at his destination — and flew into history.

♥~ 1978:  Mavis Hutchinson, 53, made it to New York City to become the first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69 days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day. Now that’s what we call a daily workout

♥~ 1988: Champ bull rider Lane Frost became the first cowboy to ride Red Rock to the 8-second bell. In the previous eight years, 312 cowboys had tried unsuccessfully to ride the rodeo circuit’s toughest bull.

♥~ 1999: Robbie Knievel jumped a 200-foot-wide chasm of the Grand Canyon with his motorcycle. The 37-year-old’s previous world record was 223 feet.

♥~ 2003: The Argentine women’s magazine “Claudia” apologized for a tip that led to more than 100 microwave explosions. The magazine had said women could restore old bottles of nail polish by microwaving them for three minutes. But many of the women who tried reported chemical reaction made their microwaves explode.

♥~ 2007: A wheelchair-bound German stunned police when they pulled him over in the city of Schwerin for using the road and found he was 10 times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers. Police decided they couldn’t legally impound the 31-year-old man’s wheelchair, but they insisted  he would face some type of punishment.

★~Born Today:

♥~ 1908 : (Jimmy) James (Maitland) Stewart Academy Award-winning actor: Philadelphia Story [1940]; The Glenn Miller Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey, Rear Window, Anatomy of a Murder, Bell, Book and Candle, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Vertigo, The Man from Laramie.

♥~1944: Joe (John Robert) Cocker singer, songwriter: With a Little Help from My Friends, She Came in through the Bathroom Window, The Letter, Up Where We Belong [w/Jennifer Warnes], You are So Beautiful, When the Night Comes, Cry Me a River

♥~ 1946: Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre) singer: group: Sonny [Bono] & Cher: I Got You Babe, The Beat Goes On, All I Really Want to Do; solo: Bang Bang, Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves, The Way of Love, Dark Lady; Academy Award-winning actress: Moonstruck [1987]; The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask

♥~1977 : Matt Czuchry, actor,  perhaps best known for his role as Logan in “Gilmore Girls.” His additional television credits include “Friday Night Lights,” “Veronica Mars,” “7th Heaven,” “The Practice”, “Young Americans and “The Good Wife”

♥~ Most millionaires worry about the cost of gas, healthcare, and inflation just like the rest of us. Forty percent of millionaires fear that their standard of living will decline in retirement and that their money will run out before they die.

♥~ 23M  is quoted by Fidelity as the “magic number” a person today needs to feel “really rich”

♥~ 3% of todays Millionaires inherited wealth. Over half of them  started their own business while a third had a professional practice (doctor, lawyer) or worked in the corporate world.

♥~ Millionaires are often not good  students; the median college GPA of millionaires is 2.9, and the average SAT score is 1190.

♥~ 59% percent of millionaires attended a state college or university.

♥~ The No. 1 make of car owned by millionaires in 1996 was Ford. Today, it’s Toyota, according to  the book The Millionaire Next Door.

♥~ 2011: Five Richest people in the world:
Carlos Slim Helu: 73.5 billion, Mexico
Bill Gates: 53 billion, US
Warren Buffett: 47 billion, US
Mukesh Ambani: 29 billion, India, Chief of Reliance Industries:
Lakshmi Mittal: 28.5 billion,  Indian steel magnate

♥~ Today’s Silly:

We were eating at one of the trendier restaurants in town when my friend pointed to the menu and told the waitress, “I’ll have the 24.”

“Uh, Jim,” I whispered, “that’s the price, not the meal number.”

“Oh,” he said. “Then give me the 12.” (Readers Digest)

Happy Friday! I’m running like a crazy person this Morno! I will catch up with you in a bit. . Odd would love to be kept company with a comment if you are not running like a crazy person right beside me!

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